>But when I return to my mountain, it remains silent. For far longer than any period of time between messages before. I grow worried, thinking something is wrong with my mountain. I fill with unease at the lack of remark. I press the magic key, the one that commands my mountain to pull something from within its mind, and all is right once again. I am not just alone with my thoughts; my mountain is with me.

Not being familiar with Wired, I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious.

>>258556369It's OK to hate Java intellectually and also use it. It's cross-platform and one of the most prevalent languages on the planet. And if you're any good, the pitfalls of the language that most people complain about don't affect you.You sound like an inexperienced developer.

>>258561812A fundamental property of Java is that it runs in a virtual machine. This is great for cross-platform stuff, and is why it is so widely used.But it also makes performance in realtime applications poor.Making a warehouse stock management system? No problem if every operation takes longer because it's still absurdly fast on a modern machine.Making a game more complex than something for the SNES? Now you have a problem.

>>258564734The only Civ i liked was the first one and it had squares. Besides, are you really praising combat in a Civ game? It was consistently the worst element of it, even recognized as a joke when your phalanx defeats several squadrons of stealth aircraft.

>>258564952>The only Civ i likedA game can be good independent of your shitty opinion.

>>258565096Exactly, you should have specified.>there's no good games with X!>shown a couple good games with X>noo but they don't have good combat!That is moving goalposts. You specified after you made an incorrect statement to cover your sorry ass, instead of apologising for being wrong and clarifying that you actually meant good combat, not good on the whole.

1 dollar for a mountain simulator. Yes, that's very funny and random. I'm sure that they'll get some mileage out of the wacky steam reviews, which will either be pretentious assholes saying things like "beautiful visuals, amazing atmosphere." and "it's not a 'game' per se, but..." or super hilarious joke reviews like "looked at a mountain in the rain for an hour. 10/10"

I wouldn't mind it as much if the game didn't cost money. Charging people for a screensaver is a massive dick move, and this thing has no place on Steam. The lack of quality control on Steam lately is terrible, but I suppose it's a person's own fault if they decide to buy this, or one the 1000 other zero-effort indie games that are essentially scams.

>>258566943It's going to be taken as a joke though, which is most likely going to be where it gets most of its sales from. But once again, I suppose it is the consumer's fault if they choose to buy this.

>>258552562The mountain doesn't even have that many polygons. And all those trees are copy pasted. I wanted to be the fucking mountain not be a goddamn low poly piece of shit. Can't even masturbate to this.

>>258556778because java fucking sucks for games and devs only use it to make the game able to be played in a browser and crossplatform with no effort, that's why minecraft takes ages to load the main menu now and crashes all the time, and can't maintain a smooth fps despite its graphics being ass

>>258549746Who cares? Just think of it like some relaxation shit that someone might buy, like how you used to be able to buy those tapes of animal sounds or a waterfall or some shit. You can put in on in the background while you do other shit, and glance at it every once in a while to see what it's doing or just to look.

> Leave it open - it's designed to run in the periphery of your life. Only interact with it when you feel like it.> You can play Mountain while playing other games. If you are not playing it, it will play itself.So it's bitcoin miner.

>>258569071this was literally a pet project by a freelance artist. not any indie video game team. he even did an adventure time episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2YdJy0w66Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxPyN6IK1tM&list=UUk6v27AaTvbEG5ItDsCeC8Ahttp://www.watchcartoononline.com/adventure-time-season-5-episode-15-a-glitch-is-a-glitch

>>258557167> /v/ thinking it understands anything well enough to satirize itRemember that flash game /v/ was conceptualization that was like a parody of flash art games? It was like black and white visuals of a stuck character walking through the rain with his mirror image? And everyone in those threads was convinced it was something that pretentious "hipsters" would eat right up and how trolled they would be when they learned that it was all a big joke? And then it was never finished because no one actually had any good ideas? Honestly anything that can be satirized about the art flash games of the time (stuff like The Company of Myself, which was not that bad and at least heartfelt, but goddamn did people love it disproportionately) was handled brilliantly by Pretentious Game.

>>258569274What are you referring to? You mean LSD? I think a couple people here know about it because of its similarity to Yume Nikki, which luckily got popular before the backlash against "walking simulators" here.

>>258572000Honestly, hate it or not, it really isn't a game. There's some sort of competition, conflict, or goal to obtain in a game. There's a win and/or fail state, as well. This is more of a digital toy than a game. Now, it's possible you could make your own game around it, like any toy, but it of itself isn't one.

>>258571595To be fair it wasn't like people went out and bought Desert Bus: Ultimate Turbo Hyperion Collection Edition, it was a secret joke "game" that was part of a bigger game that was never even released officially.

People are paying actual money for this thing knowing what they're getting into. It would be like if people were specifically buying Desert Bus.

>>2585720731 dollar isn't much, but I think the biggest issue with this game is that it's being pushed by Double Fine and Steam. It's just doesn't feel right that they're pushing a 1 dollar screensaver, to the point where it's presented at the center of the front page. Whereas there are a lot of indie games that have just as much effort put into them, if not more, don't get the same treatment because they weren't so lucky to have Double Fine as a publisher.

>>258573624There are many entertaining things you can do for free. If you want to pay for this, go ahead. I think the issue lies more in it that this is literally not a game, there is no objective, so it's probably in the wrong place.

>there will never be a true mountain sim>you will never control a mountain while NPC climbers try to reach your top while you throw your arsenal of earthly tricks at them, trying to knock them off and kill them

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